Peter T. King

Peter T. King ( also: Pete King, born April 5, 1944 in New York City, New York ) is an American politician of the Republican Party. He is since 1993 a deputy in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing the 3rd Congressional District in upstate New York, which consists of the eastern part of Nassau County on Long Iceland.

Life

Peter T. King was born in 1944 in Manhattan and grew up in Queens. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1965 at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, and in 1968 the Juris Doctor at the University of Notre Dame Law School in Notre Dame, Indiana.

After completing his studies he worked until 1974 in the District Attorney of Nassau County office; In the same period he was also a member of the National Guard of New York. He is married to his wife Rosemary since 1967 and has two children.

Political career

King began his political career in 1977 as a member of the City Council of Hempstead, New York. In 1981 he was elected Comptroller ( head of accounting ) in Nassau County, a post which he held until 1993. In 1986, he applied for the post of Attorney General of New York, but was defeated by Democratic incumbent Robert Abrams. He was elected MP for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1993.

He is a member of the following committees:

  • United States House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises
  • As opposition leader King is a member of all subcommittees
  • Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
  • Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence

King, who supported the IRA itself and noraid, organized in March 2011 a first hearing on the radicalization of Muslims in the United States; Critics see in it the danger of a witch hunt.

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